Students responded with a postering campaign and a sit-in at University hall, prompting Jewett to establish the Task force in fall 1990. The Task Force, cochaired by Assistant Dean for Co-Education Janet A. Viggiani and RUS member Emily M. Tucker '93, examined the Ad Board's ability to decide on charges of rape.

Despite the different definitions of date rape, Viggiani insists that the burgeoning campus discourse on date rape has been "helpful in getting people to appreciate complexities and things they should pay attention to in their behavior."

But what measures the College will take to reconcile the different interpretations of date rape policy remain unclear.

Jewett, who only recently received the Undergraduate Council report, says he would encourage further debate next fall and ultimately present a list of proposals to the Faculty Council, a steering committee for the full faculty.

Jewett says major reforms such as the creation of a new student-faculty disciplinary body would required approval from the Faculty Council.

Since the University solely administers disciplinary policy and does not determine legal meanings, it can define rape as it wants to as long as it "doesn't contradict the law of the state," according to Viggiani.

Some say, however, the University is not equipped to handle cases of sexual assault or rape.

For example, the Undergraduate Council narrowly rejected a measure, 22-21, which would relegate date rape cases to the exclusive domain of criminal courts--and not the Ad Board.

Daniel H. Tabak '92, who sponsored the failed measure, says the University lacks experience, noting only six of 2685 ad Board cases have involved allegations of date rape.

"Harvard should let the court system do its job, while Harvard does its job," Tabak wrote in the resolution.

Annually, less than three persons have been charged with rape out of 10 to 15 cases of sexual assualt in recent years, according to Viggiani.

Viggiani says she encounters more cases which "usually [involve] physical violence and sexual molestation that fall short of rape."

But Anagnastopoulos insists that the Ad Board is qualified to handle date rape cases.

"The Ad Board may not be legal scholars, but they're adequate judges of behavior for the Harvard campus," she says. The Ad Board has the right to decide cases that occur within the institution."